Prince Henry

Posted by Jon Miller on Thursday 28th of May 2026 07:50

London, 23 April 1752: The last accounts from the Havanna mention, that the Prince Henry man of war, that put in there, having lost all her masts, &c and only the hull left, was detained there till orders were received from the Commodore at Jamaica. Her main-mast going over the side, stove all their boats, their pumps proving very bad, shipped a great many seas, and with great difficulty was saved, being then about seventy leagues to the leeward of the Havanna. [Kentish Post, 25 April 1752]

London, 25 April 1752: As the Prince Henry man of war, Capt Jasper, who put into the Havanna in November last, to repair the damage she received a few days after she sailed from Jamaica, might have reached England ere now, seeing that the stores she wanted at Jamaica to refit her, were ready to be shipped off before the middle of December, there are some who strongly suspect that the Governor of Havanna has taken it into his head, as she is richly laden, to detain her until he shall hear whether, by some refined piece of chicanery, the Court of Madrid may not approve of her being seized, as a a compensation for the loss of the Conquestader, a Spanish man of war, taken by Admiral Knowles in the West-Indies after cessation of hostilities , which ought to have been restored, but was, through carelessness, suffered to decay and sink at Jamaica. [Kentish Post, 29 April 1752]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 27th of May 2026 11:23

Havanna, 2 November 1751: The 17th of October an English man of war, called the Prince Henry, Captain Richard Jasper, came to an anchor in this harbour, having lost all her masts, and suffered other considerable damages from the hurricanes, which we have had in these seas during the month of September. She was received here with that humanity, which is requisite upon such occasions, and all possible assistance will be given her till she can be put in a condition to pursue her voyage. This ship, which was bound for London, sailed from Jamaica the 3d of September; on the 4th the first hurricane happened, which would not suffer her to put in between Cayques and Mariguana; and on the 23d she met with the second, off Cape St Antonio, which carried away all her masts. Several Englishmen, belonging to three merchant ships that have been wrecked, are likewise arrived in this port. They have all been collected together, and are incorporated amongst the crews of his Majesty’s ships. The Captain of the Prince Henry has since demanded these men, and they will be delivered to him, upon his paying the money that they have cost during their stay here; but the point is not as yet settled. [Kentish Post, 1 February 1752]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 27th of May 2026 06:47

London, 7 January 1752: The Earl of Hallifax, Philips, bound from Boston to London, is arrived at Plymouth, who brings letters giving an account, that the Prince Henry man of war, having lost her masts, is put into the Havannah to refit, and that the crew are very sickly with the yellow fever. [Kentish Post, 11 January 1752]

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 27th of May 2026 02:11

London, 4 January 1752: We hear that a ship from Jamaica to Boston, spoke with Capt Jasper in his Majesty’s ship Prince Henry, having lost all her masts and anchors in the late hurricane; she was then under jury masts, with the people all well on board, and making the best of her way back to Jamaica with a fair wind. [Kentish Post, 8 January 1752]

Posted by Brian Stephens on Tuesday 1st of April 2014 21:07

Halifax Gazette, April 6, 1752 p. 2
Charlestown, in South Carolina, Dec. 13 - Last night arrived here the sloop Kingston, Capt. Whitefield, bound from Jamaica Philadelphia, but drove in the late Hurricane out of Black river to Sea and obliged to put into Havanna, which place she left 16 days ago. By this vessel we have advice that several vessels were lost in that Hurricane on Cuba and that His Majesties Ship Prince Henry, of 40 guns, Capt. Jasper, bound from Jamaica for England, had put into Havanna, having in the said Hurricane lost all her Masts and received other damages till whose arrival, All the Englishman belonging to the vessels cast away, were by the kind Spaniards imprisoned in their Forts and Gaols.